Mainframe Command Center - consolidating monitoring views

Hi All, Good Day. Being part of the command center we provide monitoring services to various regions. This includes console monitoring , batch support , hard ware monitoring , escalation , following checklist activities etc. This is across z/OS(OS , online - DB2 , IMS , MQ , Batch suport etc),

Consolidated LPAR monitoring solution

Hi All, I needed some expert advice by the group. Current situation: We have different regions and each one of them have their own products(1 - CA7 , CA OPSMVS , etc AND 2 - TWS , SA-ZOS , NETVIEW and so on so forth). Each of these regions have multiple LPARs and corresponding consoles. These

z/OS MF environment - effort estimation.

Hi All, Good day. I needed expert advise on how do we calculate the numbers (effort estimation ) provided that we have the infrastructure that we support. Assuming that I have the below: 1) # of LPARs. 2) # of ISV products. 3) Automation on z/os on all LPARs. 4) Storage 5)MIPS 6) # of CICS

Re: RSU maintenance strategy - Need expert suggestions

Hi All, Thanks very much for your timely and quick response. Yes have proposed a strategy to the customer and will be reviewed by early next year. I will have some follow-up questions regarding the same and will post to get some advise. Thanks again. On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 1:32 AM, Edward Gould

RSU maintenance strategy - Need expert suggestions

Hi All, I needed expert suggestions on following the RSU maintenance strategy for z/OS , associated ISV products , DB2 etc. Could you please let me know 1) How many times in a year do we need to apply the maintenance to z/os , ISV products , DB2 etc. 2) How to decide which ones to be applied.

Re: z/OS MF environment - effort estimation.

sysproc activities , cics sysprog activities etc. Any one has any further inputs please advise. have nice day. On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht < elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote: > Anil Kumar wrote: > > >Good day. I needed expert advise on how do we cal

Need to review the HIPER - How best to do

Hi All, In a new set-up MF environment , it has been decided to go ahead with the new proactive maintenance strategy . As a part of which we need to review the HIPERs which the z/OS sysprog have generated(in text pad). These include for DB2 , CICS, MQ ,z WAS etc. The HIPERs need to be classified

Re: Need to review the HIPER - How best to do

Thanks much Kurt. On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 6:19 PM, Kurt Quackenbush <ku...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > On 3/14/2018 11:48 AM, ANIL KUMAR wrote: > > I need your valuable inputs to know how to review these HIPERs. >> > > 2) But I understand that IBM support website can be use

Mainframe to Oracle EBS migration and creating Test Environments

Respected members, Current application landscape of a client: 1) 2 applications in Oracle ERP Suite 2) 3 critical applications in MF (JCL Cobol VSAM DB2 CICS ADSO IDMS CA7) Future landscape - Planning to do: 1) All applications in Oracle ERP Suite will be as is. 2) Move all the applications